Very sad to hear yesterday the passing of a true legend and active member of Permaculture Noosa – Frank Fekonia. Husband to Elisabeth, Frank was a true maverick character who told me how he escaped from communist Slovania in the early 1960’s by stealing a canoe and paddling night...

Green manure crops are plants grown specially to be dug back into the soil before they reach maturity. This way they help to contribute to the care and feeding of the garden soil. Its an old technique that’s been forgotten by many farmers and gardeners who are no longer aware of...

He looks like a rangy cowboy but its not a six gun in his hand that he carries, but a artist’s pad and a felt pen marker. In his mid 50’s and on a hot muggy Monday morning, Geoff Lawton and fifteen Permaculture interns stride into a suburban home located in Lismore, NSW. The owner...

There are reported to be over 1600 varieties of bees in Australia but only 14 species are stingless. Australian stingless bees are a lot smaller and darker looking than your average sized honey bee. There’s one good advantage in being small, and that’s at being able to pollinate...

Trying to see Anne Wensley’s chicken coop is hard to spot at first. Thats because it doesn’t really look like a traditional chicken coop. Anne has a mass of vines and creepers covering her chicken run in her suburban backyard. A choko vine covered in...

We’re planning a number of exciting new titles to be released in 2011. Urban Permaculture DVD One of the complaints we often get from people living in the city is that we focus a little heavily on Permaculture titles that require a large scale farm to get the most benefit from...

Good to see Sami Grover from Treehugger posting a story on Geoff Lawton’s Permaculture Soils DVD. Its created quite a lot of interest and comments on Treehugger and YouTube as people start to realize the actual dynamic, volume, weight and bio-diversity of living life in a healthy top...

“Those who treated him as a madman in the beginning realise today that he is a genius” The Prime Minister of Yatenga, June 2008 “Yacouba single-handedly has had more impact on conservation than all the national and international researchers put together“…in this region tens of thousands...

A couple of months ago we got an email from Todd Moody who wrote to us, “Earlier this year I began an endeavour to submit all released permaculture documentaries to IMDb.com (the Internet Movie Database). I later expanded that effort to include documentaries about other topics related...

It’s very rare to see Permaculture founder Bill Mollison on video these days and a frank interview with Geoff Lawton and Bill together is probably rarer still. Whilst we were at the Permaculture Convergence held in Cairns this year we stumbled upon Bill and Geoff having breakfast...

Geoff Lawton’s Permaculture Soils DVD is now shipping. A special thanks go out to all the people that pre-ordered this disk through Permaculture.org.au and waited patiently for their DVD to arrive. Your DVDs are now in the mail and will arrive very shortly. We had a few issues with...

Going to your first Permaculture Convergence can be a funny thing to experience. For a start as we were checking in at the resort where we were staying just outside Cairns my wife nudged me and quietly pointed out the number of grey haired old men with white beards hanging around the lobby....